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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-2-rules-2003/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2839",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-no-2-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2003 and shall come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of rules 1 to 3, 5 and 6 and the Schedule, on 1st December 2003; and\n(b) otherwise, on the date on which section 111 (Parental responsibility of unmarried father) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 comes into force.\n(2) In these Rules, unless the context requires otherwise, a reference to a rule, Appendix or form by number alone means the rule, Appendix or form so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1247; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/2113 and 1994/3155."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2839/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:45:37.065103+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}